Staples the Office Superstore

This location is super convenient and has everything that I need. Besides office supplies, they have printing services and is a UPS drop off location. They have a super friendly and helpful staff. They even went out of their way to manually size my pictures to fit passport regulations.

Staples online — pretty awesome. Staples in store? Meh. At least based on my recent experience.
First of all, we are wandering through the store trying to figure out the most logical place for keyboard cleaner to be — the cleaning section? The laptop section? It ended up being at the very front of the store. The whole time we were looking, we didn’t see anyone to ask where it was, which would have made the task a whole lot easier! No one offered to help us out or help us find anything, which I thought was fairly typical.
After we found it and checked out, our checkout experience was pretty slow. There was one cashier, and she was attending to a man with a language barrier who ultimately (after about 5 minutes of discussion) decided that his $ 75 discounted backpack wasn’t worth the $ 22 it had been reduced to.
Once we got to our cashier, she was really nice and friendly. So props to her! But the amount of time it took to get there wasn’t my favorite experience. Although this Staples is really close and convenient, I’ll probably stick to a different store or shopping online when it comes to buying office supplies.

Everyone here is just so darn happy to help – I’m in on a regular basis to drop off at UPS or buy computer supplies. I always have my questions answered, check-​out is always quick, and – seriously – always helped with a smile.

Great selection… but no one asked if I needed help… mmmmh…ok

This store has a nifty habit of saving my hide, and not even by doing anything out of the ordinary. Just by existing. The funny and aggravating thing about office supplies is that they have a way of running out. Printer ink. Pens and pencils. Envelopes and paper. Calendar pages. Though if you can’t see that last one coming ahead of time, then I dunno what to say. I’ve also used Staples’ printing and fax services, but that was at the Lennox location, so I can’t vouch for them so much here.
So office supply stores in general = one of life’s necessities in an ever-​expanding range of work fields. A tougher question is how and whether a store for that purpose stands out among others.
Well, most recently — the night before last — the mouse button on my middle-​aged laptop went kaboom and I needed to get an external mouse so that I could do, y’know, anything. Sped over to the computer supply store on Bethel I tend to rely on first, but I was half an hour past closing. Not wanting to keep checking stores, I decided to wait until morning. Problem was, that particular store wasn’t going to be open again until 10am. My work relies on my having a usable computer, so Staples’ early open hours of 8am on a weekday won the day for me. And it just makes sense, since some people need that nice, early time to squeeze their emergency supply shopping in.
There have been times I’ve wished they were open later, as well, and they’re just not. But the early hours definitely win.